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- April 22nd, 2024, 11:57 am
- Forum: Water
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Braided hose to water filter faucet
Do the Perfectwater folks have a plan for getting it hooked up? That one is an RO faucet, nicely geared for hooking up with John Guest, but may be a little tricky getting from what appears to be a 7/16-24 UNS (1/4" compression) male threaded stem to your 3/8" BSP softener without going via JG
- April 18th, 2024, 7:29 pm
- Forum: Water
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Water, no scale? no corrosion? For reservoir espresso machines
^^^^ Excellent way to do concentrates. The revised Barista Hustle recipes also use this 1000 ppm as CaCO3 strength for both concentrates. Makes it all so easy -- add 20 ml of concentrate to make 1 liter and you have added 20 ppm as CaCO3 to your GH or KH. Note that where these recipes
- April 17th, 2024, 1:58 pm
- Forum: Water
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Water, no scale? no corrosion? For reservoir espresso machines
That is correct. The resin filter is there to exchange hardness minerals (Ca and Mg) and rpavlis water has none. Just remove it* - even though it's not being depleted you don't want it in there a long time and possibly harboring microbes. I'm a fan of having a group thermometer on an HX.
- April 17th, 2024, 12:34 pm
- Forum: Water
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Water, no scale? no corrosion? For reservoir espresso machines
Good point. That does put a wrinkle in trying to predict limescale using LSI calculations. I think you are still probably fine given that most of the time your steam boiler is at much lower pressure, but hard to be 100% sure. If you are using that soft water, and also the LeLit resin softener in the
- April 16th, 2024, 3:08 pm
- Forum: Water
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Water, no scale? no corrosion? For reservoir espresso machines
I agree that you should look into Whole Foods' water refill station. Mine is 39 cents per gallon of de-ionized, which is local tapwater that is treated via RO followed by ion exchange de-ionization to get it down to a couple ppm or less. Besides the price it also helps avoid container waste. P.S. Gi...
- April 15th, 2024, 12:21 pm
- Forum: Water
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Braided hose to water filter faucet
That looks very reasonable to me. Pretty much just a standard faucet. The 3/8" on the end of that braided hose would almost surely be 3/8" compression for fitting to common US angle stops. (3/8" comp is not the same threading as what is usually called 3/8" NPT.) I think the adapter fitting that Stef...
- April 15th, 2024, 1:27 am
- Forum: Lever Espresso Machines
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Red/brown water when emptying La Pavoni Europiccola boiler
That siphon tube should be brass. After a harsh descale it will look pinkish (because the surface zinc is removed) and when polished with a mild abrasive should look like yellow brass. It has no iron so should never rust. {image} I'm at a loss here. I've read that you should avoid using
- April 14th, 2024, 4:08 pm
- Forum: Water
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Braided hose to water filter faucet
It's still not really clear about that faucet end that you want to connect with. Many of the little faucets used with undersink RO units are either 3/8" OD or 1/4" OD pipe, and are typically supplied with a few plastic JG adapters for fitting to that pipe. If I understand your setup you already have
- April 11th, 2024, 5:56 pm
- Forum: Water
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Help with water results please
Numbers like that are what you expect from a really hard water that has been effectively softened by a conventional ion exchange softener. It has dropped the hardness drastically, which will address limescale issues, but still has very high alkalinity. The main argument against such high alkalinity ...
- April 11th, 2024, 5:02 pm
- Forum: Water
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Lotus Water experiences
Yes. A 1/10 dilution is appropriate for shots in the 45 gram ballpark. My 1/13 suggestion was for ~ 35 gram shots. Not that it matters much, but a proper 1/10 dilution would have 1 gram of concentrate solution diluted to a total mass of 10 grams (e.g., 1 part Lotus to 9 parts pure water). Given